Fence-post



(NO Model) I. HUNGERFORD.

FENCE POST.

No. 583,180 Patented May 25,1897.

WITWESSES i@ d UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA I-IUNGEEEORD, or Moscow, INDIANA.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent NO. 583,180, dated May 25, 1897'. Application iiled November 24,1896. Serial No. 613,308. (No model.)

To all 'wh/0711, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, IRA HUNGERFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moscow, in the county of Rush and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Posts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in Y felice-posts; and it consists of certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts, all of which will be hereinafter Inore particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l represents a side elevation of a post embodying my invention and adapted forapplication upon the straight side of a fence. Fig. 2 represents a central vertical transverse section through the same, .and Fig. 3 represents an end elevation of my improved post adapted for use at the corner of the fence.

A in the drawings represents the base-plate; B, my improved post; C C', the longitudinal braces, and D the lateral brace. The said base-plate A may be of any desirable material, but is preferably made of stone, and is adapted to be buried beneath the surface. The post proper, B, comprises two plates secured together by rivets h, with the upper ends of the braces C C secured between them and about said rivets. The lower ends of the plates of the posts are flared, as at h', in opposite directions and are each provided with a horizontal attaching-flange b2, suitably secured to the base A, The bracing-rod C comprises a single rod mounted upon the upper rivet h and connected to the base A by any suitable means. The brace C comprises two rods connected to the lower rivet b and having their ends spread and attached to said base A by any suitable means.

The construction of post so far described is that used on the straight sides of the fence. In applying the post in position the baseplate, braces, and the lower ends of the post proper are buried beneath the surface, so as to bring the level of the surface up to the juncture of the vertical and flaring portions of t-he plates forming said post. The wires or other material of which the felice is constructed are suitably secured to the post B, either between the plates of the same or upon the sides of said plates.

In the construction of corner-posts shown in Fig. 3 the base A is provided with an auxiliary extension A', and this extension is connected to said post B by a brace-rod D, suitably secured to said base A and to the upper rivet of the fence-post. Vhen this latter form of my invention is applied in position, it is so buried that the strain of the wires of the fence will be directlyaway from the bracerods G C/ and D, so that said rods will be held under tension and not compressed.

It will be observed from the foregoing description that the post when buried leaves exposed to view only the vertical portions of the plates forming the same and the upper ends of the brace-rods, and thusvpresents a very neat appearance and at the sanne time provides a post of great strength and resistance.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I l. In a fence-post, the combination with a suitable base, of a post proper mounted upon the same and consisting of two spaced plates secured together and having their lower ends flared and formed into horizontal attachingflanges suitably secured to said base, a bracerod connected to said base and having its upper end secured` between said plates, and a pair of lateral brace-rods having their ends secured between said plates and spread laterally so that their free ends may be attached to said base, substantially as described.

2. In a fence-post, the combination with a suitable base, of a post proper mounted upon the same and comprising two spaced plates secured together and having their lower ends flared and formed into horizontal attachingtianges suitably secured to said base, a longitudinal brace-rod connected to said base and having its upper end secured between the upper ends of said plate, a pair of lateral brace-rods having their ends secured between Ioo the loWer portions of said plate and spread In testimony whereof I have signed this laterally so that their free ends may be atspecification in the presence of two subserib- 1o cached to said base, and an auxiliary brace ing` witnesses. having its upper end Connected to the upper T 1 5 end of the post and its lower end oonneeted IRA HUB (1ERE ORD' to the base and extending at right angles to lVitnesses: the hist-mentioned bra-ce, substantially as JAMES T. THRALL, described. LEROY CARR. 

